The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical and movie based on the book The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It contains many hit songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Every Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and "The Lonely Goatherd", as well as the title song.

Further reading

• Hirsch, Julia Antopol (1994) McGraw-Hill; The Sound of Music ISBN 0809238373. Covers the story from the birth of the real Maria von Trapp through the making and successes of the Broadway and film musicals.
• Books by Maria von Trapp:
• (1949) Lippincott; The Story of the Trapp Family Singers ISBN 0060005777. The autobiography that started it all.
• (1955) Pantheon; Around the Year With the Trapp Family
• (1959) Lippincott; A Family on Wheels: Further Adventures of the Trapp Family Singers
• (1972) Creation House; Maria. Tells the entire story of Maria's life, up to 1972, and thus includes her thoughts on the musical.
• (2000) New Leaf Press; Let Me Tell You About My Savior: Yesterday, Today & Forever/When the King Was Carpenter. combined reprint of (1975) New Leaf Press; Yesterday, Today & Forever, and (1976) Word Publishing; When the King was Carpenter.
• Theo Hobson, The Guardian, September 7, 2005, "Hegel with songs: The Sound of Music is a seriously religious film, its plot a fairytale version of modern Christian history"

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